Supporting the intelligent MCDA user: A case study in multi-person multi-criteria decision support

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 172-189

  Hodgkin, Julie ^a   Belton, Valerie ^b   Koulouri, Anastasia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Group decisions; Multiple criteria decision analysis; Robustness and sensitivity analysis; Visual interactive modelling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECISION MAKING; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

GROUP DECISIONS; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; ROBUSTNESS AND SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VISUAL INTERACTIVE MODELING;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 3943071057     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2004.03.007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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